1949 Ali Aiyubi became premier
of Iraq for 2nd time
1980 Iran launched counteroffensive at Darkhovin to break
siege of Abadan in south Failed but put
Iraq on defensive in first year of
war
1981 Report that Soviet Union resumed arms deliveries to
Iraq after ban when Iran-Iraq War started
1983 PUK made deal with Iraqi govt not to attack Iraqi
forces and fight Iran in return for being left
alone 3,000 PUK Peshmerga quit and
joined KDP out of protest
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War,
The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1996 Oil for Food program began in Iraq Helped save Iraqi
economy from shortages and inflation
Program allowed Iraq to sell $2 bil
in oil every six months Half the money went to the UN Kuwait Kurdistan
1999 UN Res 1281 extended Oil for Food Program for Iraq
2001 Ansar al-Islam formed from 3 Kurdish Islamist groups
(Musings
On Iraq Why Didn’t Bush Strike Zarqawi And Ansar al-Islam In 2002?)
2001 Badr leadership Amiri Laquaa Basri met Taked about
possible US invasion of Iraq and how to
prepare for it Iran told Badr to
come up with action plan for post-Saddam Iraq Ordered to do recon within Iraq
Carry out ops vs Iraqi military in south Iraq Prepare 2 battalions to send into
Amarah and Nasiriya after a US invasion Battalions would be under Iranian intelligence
control
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
2002 USAID said Iraq would be small intervention but
security needed to be first priority
2002 NSC committee presented humanitarian plan for postwar
Iraq based upon secure environment
and small US role
(Musings
On Iraq article on Part I Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
Hard Lessons Planning for Postwar
Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 2 The Agencies
Engage)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2002 IAEA went to Al Qaim facility US claimed was an active
Iraqi nuclear plant Found it
destroyed Went to Al Furat and
found no nuclear equipment there
(Musings
On Iraq article UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD
and 2003 Invasion)
2003 CPA presented list of 1,706 priority projects US and
Iraq didn’t have money for all of them
2003 US asked France Germany Russia to forgive some of the
debt Iraq owed them
2003 Russia refused US request to forgive its Iraq debt
after US banned it from bidding on
reconstruction projects
2006 Sunni families continued to flee Baghdad’s Hurriya
after Mahdi Army attack Dec 9 Mahdi
Army rep admitted that militia
attacked Sunnis in neighborhood in retaliation for attacks upon Shiites
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq
Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2006 Ret Gen Keane and Fred Kagan met at American Enterprise
Institute to outline surge idea to
be presented to Bush
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
2007 Def Sec Gates told NSC that Pres Tabalni told him PM Maliki
was intolerable and US should help
remove him
2007 Fmr Dep Def Sec Feith speech said original US plan was
for US to quickly turn over power to Iraqis
after invasion Said Bremer’s long
term political plan angered Iraqis and started insurgency Said deBaathifiaction
was good idea but had problems with implementation
2013 Pro-PM Maliki Sheikh Hayes had his house hit by mortar
fire in Jazeera in spate of violence against
Anbar notables
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar violence)
2017 PM Abadi held victory parade in Baghdad for defeating
IS
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